Blogs in May 2021

London Bridge is Falling Down 3rd May 2021

It was the kind of story that barely made the news. When 91-year-old Alice Hoffman died in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it’s upheld as an example of what has gone wrong with modern society: she...

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The Sand Men 28th July 2016

In Dubai there’s a new world of high-luxury resorts emerging for the super-rich – but at what price to everyone else? Lea, Roy and their 15 year-old daughter Cara live in a gated community reserved for foreign workers. Roy...

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The Bleeding Heart (Bryant and May #11) 12th April 2015

It’s a fresh start for the Met’s oddest investigation team, the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Their first case involves two teenagers who see a dead man rising from his grave in a London park. And if that’s not alarming enough,...

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The Burning Man 12th April 2015

Set around London – Kings Cross, Brixton, The City and Belgravia…. London is under siege. A banking scandal has filled the city with violent protests, and as the anger in the streets detonates, a young homeless man burns to...

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